Stumble Inn

Hardcover | January 9, 2018

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George Herriman is legendary for his Krazy Kat series (whose Sunday stripsFantagraphics finished collecting last year), but not many people realize thateven during Krazy's 30-year-run, Herriman branched out and produced severalother comic-strip features, any one of which would have landed him in thepantheon of all-time greats. Stumble Inn, which ran daily for over three years(from 1922 to 1926), featured humans rather than animals and centered on thecomedic occurrences in a hotel populated by one Uriah Stumble and hisdysfunctional group of lodgers. Less dreamy and surreal than Krazy Kat'sdesert-bound romantic triangle, Stumble Inn is a more robust, 'classical' comicstrip from the 1920s with wisecracks and pratfalls galore delineated withHerriman's usual charm and elegance, and enhanced by his slangy/poeticdialogue.